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Would make more sense to export her to the Victorian Railways network in Australia. She'd get the run of herself over there - something that was never quite possible in Ireland.

It's an island off Galway, "near to where they're dumping the oul glow in the dark", so there wouldn't have been a railway link to it. An isolated island line might have been 3ft gauge at most. Would the line serve that whole Chinatown area? Remember also the whole West side of the island broke away in a storm, so there isn't actually a West side anymore.

I'd say there's hot competition from North Inner Dublin.

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If Ireland had migrant-only parties such as - Hizb-ut-TahrEire - Hezbollix - Brasileiroo - NigeriEir Advance Party those would go some way to breaking the cosy hegemony. Until then, there's only SF.

Do you not have a quartering jig?

In many ways, they reflect much of the electorate. Maybe if there were immigrant parties, that might set the cat amongst the electoral pigeons...

Alternatively, another example of modern slavery.

That's probably to allow enough room for future governments to kick the can even further down the road.

I think this one was missing from your posting....

Will there be a Holy Stone of Clonrichert being upgraded to a Class Two relic?

I have a box containing various leftover MTK parts for the GWR diesel railcar. The bogie sideframe castings are comedy, as they are slightly different lengths overall, and the wheelbases of all four castings differ slightly from each other.

There's only one e-mail contact given: tbmsp1@gmail.com - it may not be monitored anymore. The old website is long gone - I think he said it was costing too much to operate, and I surmised that IFM isn't his day job. When he used to do limited runs of resin coaches, I bought a Laminate kit. It wasn't a bad effort, as kits go.

Sure what's a few thousand dead?

Far more important than what happened on the same day in Tienanmen Square, Beijing....

Not a surprise. The real profit in IRM comes for those who snap the new stock up and then flip it on for twice or three times the RRP.

Since completing this re-gauge, I have acquired another pack of Accurascale's P4 Deltic wheels for the princely sum of eight quid. Just need to find another A class.....

Especially as it's MTK.... Anyone who remembers MTK will likely remember the man behind it: Colin Massingham. Colin's been dead for years. It was often said that he allegedly never consulted an engineering drawing when preparing a new model for production, but just looked at a few photographs and guesstimated from there. If you were (un)lucky enough to encounter one of his early Steamcast kits for BR Standard engines, you'll know what I mean. In later years, Colin himself alluded to his idiosyncratic planning methods by releasing O-gauge kits under the brand name "Elcrappo".

....or, as it's properly known in Ireland, "The Emergency"

He's not alone. I signed up for the IRM RPSI Mk2 set when it was announced, but can't find any trace of a record or acknowledgement.

I see Joe Brolly doing his bit for international relations!

Y'know, I keep thinking that I should make time to do a bit more work on my Mitchell kit "Manor" - it has taken long enough.....

That's a great shame, as the engine would otherwise be a decent fit for the Downpatrick line. She hasn't worked for over 50 years.

By phone? That's an inside line most of us don't have!